What can you see?

Eduardo Paolozzi often shows images of the human head in his work. His heads are often presented fractured or made up of images of other things – creating a sense of the inner workings of the mind. This work is part of a series called Conditional Probability Machine, in which he explores brain function and the connections in the brain.

The head on the left is looking at a car, and the artist imagines a kind of film reel inside the mind which remembers the car and assigns the word ‘car’ to describe it.

Thinking about the videos you’ve watched here, what kind of memory do you think this is most like?

Hannah FlynnHannah Flynn is an Alice in Wonderland enthusiast who also happens to work at Tate on Tate Kids, Young Tate and the Great British Art Debate.